Tyler Soderstrom struck two circuits and rolled in a six-point career summit and Shea Langeliers also dominated, doubled and led in two points to conduct athletics visiting a 12-3 victory against the Chicago White Sox in the opening match of a series of three games on Tuesday.
Soderstrom has resumed Home Run’s head of the major league (eight) with the third multi-homer match of his career. He also joined the temple of renown Reggie Jackson (1974) as the only players in the history of A to have three games in several homes in the first 17 games of a season.
Soderstrom and Longueliers each finished with three strokes, and Lawrence Butler and Brent Rooker also had two strokes for athletics, which has the White Sox 13-6.
Jeffrey Springs (3-1) won the victory for the A, granting three points over three strokes in five rounds. He walked three and withdrew four. Mitch Spence launched the last three rounds and granted two strokes and no point to collect his first career stop.
Andrew Vaughn struck a three -point circuit and Lenyn Sosa managed two strokes and a race for Chicago, which took his second consecutive defeat. Sean Burke (1-3) granted five points on six strokes in 3 1/3 rounds. He walked two and also withdrew two.
Athletics took a 3-0 lead in the first round when Butler started with only one, advanced in third place on a simple single to rook and marked when Soderstrom pierced a three-point circuit on the right.
Chicago equaled him 3-3 at the bottom of the first on Homer de Vaughn on the enclosure of the lifts in the left field, leading to Miguel Vargas, who had doubled, and Sosa, who had walked.
The A took over, 4-3, in the second on a double from the bottom of the wall of the central field by Gio Urshela. It scored Jacob Wilson, who had chosen.
Langeliers made 5-3 when he led the third with his fourth circuit, a 409 feet journey which was curled around the fault pole of the left field.
The A then opened the match with a sixth of four points – highlighted by the double RBI of Butler and the second circuit of the Night of Soderstrom, an explosion of 423 feet in the stands on the right.
Athletics added three other points in the ninth lifter Mike Clevinger – highlighted by the double RBI of langeliers at the top of the fence of the left field.
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